Introduction by A. V. Sedov, Director, State Museum of Oriental Art, and M. B. Piotrovsky, Director, State Hermitage Museum. With an essay by Rose Issa

The catalogue to ‘The Dance of Pen and Ink’, an exhibition curated by Rose Issa at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and the State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow. The exhibition featured six contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa and Iran who work with signs, traces and calligraphy: Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Mohamed Ehsai, Ali Omar Ermes, Rachid Koraichi and Nja Mahdaoui.

Triumph Gallery, Moscow, 2007
64 pages, 48 colour illustrations